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Country and blues singer Bonnie Raitt, who left Harvard after her sophomore year to pursue a career in music, will receive the Harvard Arts Medal on May 3, the Office for the Arts at Harvard and Radcliffe (OFA) announced yesterday...
...Raitt--a former member of the class of 1972 and resident of Cabot House--will accept her award during the fifth annual Arts First, the University-sponsored weekend in May that features student performances and exhibitions...
Myra A. Mayman, director of OFA, said Raitt was chosen on the basis of her musical success by a committee which Mayman heads...
...Raitt, who released her first album in 1971, grew up in Los Angeles, where she now lives...
...folk art and antique guitars decorate their walls. A dozen color-TV monitors provide close-ups of the action on stage. The menu offers a melange of Southern dishes, from smothered chicken to spicy quesadillas. The performers are sometimes just as varied: such established blues acts as Bonnie Raitt and Muddy Waters, rockers like Bruce Springsteen, even reggae star Ziggy Marley. The Los Angeles club has developed such a hot reputation among mainstream musicians that the artist formerly known as Prince called to ask if he could perform...